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JFK: Your family should build a nuclear fallout shelter

1 Soviet nuclear bomb can wipe out a whole city, but the blast is not the end of it. A nuclear explosion sends a mushroom-shaped cloud high into the air. The cloud is full of radioactive material, which falls back to earth: fallout, it can poison you and your family. The president wants you to be prepared. He’s asking Americans to build fallout shelters.

JFK: Your family should build a nuclear fallout shelter

1961

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